| Li Chen – Soul Guardians: In an Age of Disasters and Calamities
The Asia Art Center in Beijing's 798 Art District is presenting a spectacular new series of sculptural works by Li Chen. Titled Soul Guardians: In an Age of Disasters and Calamities, the exhibition consists of three large-scale installations. If Li Chen has produced singular bronzes of exceptional harmony in the past, the present sculptural installations are designed for a world marked... |
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| Kai Althoff at Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the first Canadian exhibition of work by German artist Kai Althoff from November 8, 2008 to February 15, 2009. Kai Althoff focuses on the artist's most recent artistic production, including new resin and iron sculptures, several collaborative projects and a re-envisioned environment from the 4th Berlin Biennale, along with a selection of celebrated... |
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| Conner Contemporary Art presents Levinthal - Charlton - de la Mora opening exhibitions
ZOЁ CHARLTON: Family
DAVID LEVINTHAL: War
GABRIEL DE LA MORA: 39-G.M.C.-23.sept.2007
Conner Contemporary Art is announcing the opening of three solo exhibitions featuring drawings by Zoë Charlton, photographs by David Levinthal and video by Gabriel de la Mora.
Zoë Charlton presents Family (2008), a new series of large format drawings. Statuesque nude figures drawn from... |
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| THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST
In the Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science
November 1, 2008, 1 – 5pm
THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST and corresponding book by Klara Hobza is a multifaceted artwork inspired by a historic paper airplane contest that took place in 1967 at the Great Hall in what is now the New York Hall of Science. Built by Wallace K. Harrison to display rockets in the 1964 World's... |
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| Check-Post. Art in Israel in the 1980s
Curator: Ilana Tenenbaum
This exhibition is concerned with the postmodern trends that characterized art in Israel during the 1980s - a period of political, social and intellectual change. These strategies are evident in the works created by members of the generation that came of age during the 1970s, as well as in the works of artists who began exhibiting during the 1980s. The new... |
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| The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is presenting The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers from September 2, 2008, through August 29, 2009, in the upper-level Logan Galleries on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts. The exhibition is organized by Jens Hoffmann, director of the Wattis Institute. It is free and open to the public, with an opening... |
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| FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME: Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography
A Collection of over 40 Seminal Photography Books by Nobuyoshi Araki, Masahiso Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kenji Kanesaka, Kikuji Kawada, Keizo Kitajima, Seiji Kurata, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira,Yutaka Takanashi, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiroshi Sugimoto and others
Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME – Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar... |
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| Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, my dear Watson
Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Orum (Denmark), Brian Bosworth (USA), Walpa D'Mark (USA), Damien Deroubaix (France), Per Enoksson (Sweden), Brian Getnick (USA), Christine Gray (USA), Philip Gurrey (UK), Lia Halloran (USA), Peter Lamb (UK), Olivier Millagou (France), Jered Sprecher (USA), Villeroy & Boch (Netherlands), Matt Wardell (USA)
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to present the third... |
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| The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz takes L. Frank Baum's popular novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as its starting point to examine the relationship between art and literature, our idea of home and place, as well as the cultural and social fabric of America itself.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Robert Bechtle, Jennifer Bornstein, Ulla von Brandenburg, Bruce Conner, Walker Evans, Simryn Gill, Dominique... |
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| Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
Over the past few years the nationally regarded private collection of abstract art, including paintings, sculpture, and works on paper owned by Natalie and Irving Forman of Santa Fe, New Mexico has been gifted to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2005 the Gallery exhibited many of the paintings and sculptures. This year’s exhibition will present an intimate look at more than 130... |
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| Pretty Ugly
“Today everyone (including those bourgeois who should have been stunned and scandalized) recognize as artistically beautiful all those works that had horrified their fathers. The ugliness of the avant-garde has been accepted as a new model of beauty, and has given rise to a new commercial circuit.” Umberto Eco, On Ugliness (2007)
Pretty and Ugly, while both somewhat pejorative... |
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| Fire His Breath, Jade His Bones: New Work by Shi Jinsong
Curator: Wu Hung
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is presenting Shi Jinsong’s new solo exhibition - Fire His Breath, Jade His Bones -- curated by Wu Hung. This show challenges the conventional concept of an exhibition by emphasizing the “materiality” of contemporary art. The idea of this project first emerged in the summer of 2007 when Shi Jinsong became enchanted by... |
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| Modern Ruin
An Australian Cinémathèque exhibition and film program
A rich vein of contemporary artistic practice revaluates the utopian dreams of the modern period. ‘Modern Ruin’ brings together artists and filmmakers who look back to modern art, architecture and design in order to visually and critically explore their historical failures. The profusion of recent images of modern ruins in... |
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| Lin Tianmiao: Mother s!!!
Long March Space will showcase new explorations by artist Lin Tianmiao in 'Mother's!!!', an immersive experience that will see the gallery space completely transformed.
Over the past 2 years, Lin Tianmiao's practice has turned towards the small and intimate, having previously experimented with various large-scale installation and print based media. The diminutive works presented in... |
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| WorkSpace: Fabián Bercic
The Blanton Museum of Art is to presenting the work of Argentine artist Fabián Bercic for its current WorkSpace—a series that explores new developments in contemporary art by featuring commissioned projects by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world.
Bercic provides a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Zen garden in his site-specific installation for... |
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